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Apple's iPhone 5 press event has finally arrived and the company has announced its new thinner, lighter, and taller iPhone 5, with LTE. This slideshow documents the event through photos from the scene. We'll be updating it throughout the product unveiling. In this photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an image of the iPhone 5 during the Apple event in San Francisco, Sept. 12, 2012.

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Inside the venue!

And the photographers have been allowed inside!!

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iPad mania

Cook says iPad is driving the post-PC revolution at a breathtaking pace. 84 million iPads have been sold through June, he says.

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iPads in corporate world

Cook notes that iPads are in 94 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

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App count

Cook says every app seems to have its fan, or fans. 90 percent of apps are downloaded every month, says. The average customer is using more than 100 apps.

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iPhone 5

Moving on to iPhone. Name of the new product will be iPhone 5, says Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller. Its features include a taller display, LTE, an A6 chip, camera improvements, a new dock connector, and iOS 6.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an image of the iPhone 5 during an Apple event in San Francisco, Sept. 12, 2012.

iSight

iSight photo

Phil Schiller announces the new iPhone 5 during an Apple special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Sept. 12, 2012, in San Francisco, Calif.

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Video features

Video has also been enhanced in the iPhone 5.

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New connector

Schiller says the iPod 30-pin connector, which launched in 2003, has served the company well for almost a decade. "A lot's changed and it's time for the connector to" evolve. The new one is called Lightning.

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iOS6 on iPhone

iOS 6 will run on the iPhone 5.

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Scott Forstall

Scott Forstall, SVP of iOS software, shows off iOS features on the iPhone 5, such as turn-by-turn directions.